Community Involvement

The Hartford Business Journal, Connecticut's leading weekly business newspaper, presented Andrew Lindh, owner of NETPLEX, LLC, with its "40 Under Forty" award in September 2004. The award recognized 40 Greater Hartford business leaders under 40 years old who have succeeded in business and given back to the community.

NETPLEX is proud to be actively involved in assisting public and private educational facilities in obtaining Internet connectivty. We are also pleased that we are able to give something back to the Internet community by hosting several well known open source and free software sites.

For starters, we have donated a to the Hartford Public Library, where the public is free to enter and use the Internet at any time. We offer a free flat-rate dialup account to any school that requests one, and give educational institutions significant discounts on dedicated frame relay connections.

From time to time, we like to help out non-profit organizations that are themselves trying to do commendable work for the community. Among them are:

Operation Fuel - an agency that provides energy assistance to CT residents

NEAM - the New England Air Museum

NBMAA - the New Britain Museum of American Art

The Village - The Village for Children and Families

The Farmington Avenue Alliance

And finally, we come to the Open Source community. This is the grassroots Internet movement that is rising into the main-stream computing industry, promoting free alternatives to proprietary software, such as the Linux operating system, and the GIMP photoshop-like graphics package. Since we fully support open Internet standards and free software, we are always looking for ways to help with these types of projects. Currently, we're involved in hosting POV-Ray, the free Persistence of Vision RayTracer.

It is a very rewarding experience for us to be able to give back to these communites while being a part of them ourselves, and we will continue to contribute what we can to them.